Posts Tagged

Jamaican movies

Film

  The smash hit kung-fu movie mash-up “Ching Pow” featuring the voice talents of dancehall duo Twin of Twins in various roles, begins an extended run at select venues across this island come Thursday at its initial “home”, Theatre Place in New Kingston. After renewing its Jamaican run as of

Read More
Film

  After a long and successful film festival circuit, the New Caribbean Cinema film finally makes its debut in Jamaica with a one night only event slated for August 13 at the Carib Cinema. The film comprising 7 short stories by 6 different directors has made the rounds regionally and

Read More
Film

  “Better Mus’ Come” will make its UK television debut this coming weekend on BBC Two. This is the first time in nearly 50 years that the BBC has licensed a Jamaican movie. Below is the broadcast schedule: Better Mus’ Come – BBC Two: bbc.co.uk/programmes Congrats to Director Storm Saulter and

Read More
Film

    If you’re looking for something different to do in Kingston this weekend check out the French Film Festival which is now on in Jamaica, being presented by the Alliance Francaise de la Jamaique.

Read More
Film

At long last BETTER MUS’ COME will be released in US theaters on March 15, 2013. Storm Saulter’s Jamaican Epic BETTER MUS’ COME will be released at the African-American Film Festival in New York and Los Angeles on March 15. The theatrical release will be preceded by simultaneous one-night engagements in Philadelphia,

Read More
Film

Welcome and thanks to Matthew J. Smith for this review of the new documentary on Bob Marley, Marley, by Kevin Macdonald. Kevin Macdonald, the Oscar-winning director of films such as the Last King of Scotland, wants to be clear about his new documentary on Reggae legend Bob Marley: It is

Read More
Film

For those of you who still haven’t seen the award winning Jamaican movie, “Better Mus Come” yet, the film has been on a very healthy run winning multiple film festival awards in 2011. The film enjoyed a successful Canadian premiere recently with SOLD OUT screenings at the TIFF Bell Lightbox,

Read More
Film

Here’s a trailer for another Jamaican movie, Man Free by Kinsey Beck, that I’ve recently come across… For more info MAN FREE Great to see so many movies coming out recently on Jamaica…

Read More
Film

Here’s a movie that’s generating a big buzz in the underground cinema world…Thanks Marcel for the tip off! “The First Rasta tells the life of Rastafarianism’s founder, Leonard Percival Howell, from precocious anti-colonialist (he witnesses a murder as a child and refuses to collaborate with Jamaica’s justice system) to world

Read More
Film

Here’s an interview from TALLAWAH with the director/writer/producer Chris Browne of the latest Jamaican movie Ghett’A Life to hit the big screens. The movie is “an against the odds action drama set in a politically turbulent inner city community of Kingston. Derrick, a determined inner city teenager realizes his dream of

Read More